Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-17
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
The State Legislature.

The State legislature.
The Sehate was not fh session on the 5th...
The House held sheIa session but without
quorum present. Petitions were presented as
follows: For soldiers and sailors home;
against the Militia bill; for county supervision
Of Schools: against employing children in
mines; for submission Bills were introduced:
To regulate the sale of medicines and polsons
by druggists; to locate county and other local
boards OF health. and to amend the scnool law.
No business of Importance was transacted in
either house on the 18th. there being sufficient
number of absentees to preclude the considera-
ton of any important measure. The time OF
both houses was mainly taken up with the in
PRODUCTION of bills. Regarding the school text
book bills now pending in the Senate and
House and the fear expressed in some quarters
that the printing of school books may be done
In the penitentiary, Mr.. Ball, State Senator
from Pike County, and author of the School
Textbook bill now before the Senate, says
there is not word in his bill authorizing the
work of printing or publishing the school text
books by the State to be done in the penitenti-
ary He says there is school book publish
ing house in the State unless one has been re-
| Gently started The passage of this bill, he
| thinks would create such house, and thus
help printers and book binders ms tead OF inter
! fering with their labor.
IN the Senate on the Sth, but little bHsiness
! was transacted. few bills were intro
| duced. The bill TO enable guardians and
| curators to invest the funds of their wards in
real estate was passed. The bill providing that
special judges be allowed compensation at the
rate of ten dollars per day while serving in
such capacity, "'as defeated, as was also the
| bill to appropriate one-third % the revenue.
instead of one-fourth, to school purposes.
In the House. Mr.. Dunn's hail to prohibit
railroad companies from issuing passes
! 70 any Stats, county municipal officer, or
| from giving a discount on any tickets, was taken
/ up, and AFTER debate, was read third time and
I passed. The bill making II misdemeansr to
| pillow up ar mutlate any public road or highway
| without The consent of the road overSeer was
passed without opposition. The bill to create
State board of arbitration was takensdp and
| discussed at length, and was finally defeated on
| third reading The bill to increase the salary
of the assistant circufJ attorney of the city d
ST. Louis from S1g5 to 500 month was
| taken up read Il third time and then
passed. The bill to declare null and void the
| statute limiting the time for bringing suits
on contracts was passed; also the bill proVid-
| ing that special judges shall be paid ten dollars
per day, the parties to the suit to pay the same,
| and further providing that the parties to the
| action, in the case of an agreement, need not
| be limited to the payment of ten dollars per
day, but may decide price to be paid salts
factory to them.
| In the Senate on the 9th a large number OF
| submission petitions presented; also a
, remonstrance from the book manufacturers of
| St Louis against the passage of the Ball
| School-Book bill; also a remonstrance on the
same subject from the Jefferson City Typo
graphical Union. A remonstrance pre-
sented from citizens of ST. Louis against the
passage of the Militia bill. A few new bills
were introduced. 49,. In the House the follow
! ing bills were passed: To prevent persons dis
qualified witnesses by the death of other per-
sons from requalifying: preventing admissions
by husband or wife during the marriage rela-
ton. but allowing testimony in actions upon
policies O. insurance, upon property, in actions
against carriers, so far as relates to loss and
value of property, and in all matters of business
transactions, except as to matters of cOnfiden-
! tial communications. The bill to provide for
| county supervision of public schools was then
| taken up for engrossment and after long dis
! cussion was recommitted. The Newman Ar
! bitraton bill was again up on reconsideration
| of the vote by which it defeated, and it
! was again negatived by vote of 62 to 81.
| IN the Senate, on the 10th, but little business
! other than the reception OF new bills was trans
! acted. -. In the House the following bills were
! passed. Making it a misdemeanor for
school commissioners to grant certificates
| without examining applicants: to prevent
! domestic animals from running at large; to
! prevent the adulteration of beer and ale;
! joint and concurrent resolution me-
! morialing Congress to pass the Mill
| er bill; amending the act in rela-
! ton to curators and guardians, SO that sur
! viving wife may designate by will curators and
| guardians for minor children; amending the
! act in relation to Townships; making it a mis-
| demeanor to shoot at target across public
highway; making private banking firms respon-
| sible in the same degree that public corpora
| tions are to regulate the weighing of coal at
| mines and giving miners the right to employ
weghmaster.
! In the Senate. on the 18th, several submission
: petitions were presented; also from the
/ Holt County Horticultural Society asking the
i General Assembly to appropriate $1,000 for the
! benefit of the horticultural interest of the
! State. A resolution was adopted to turn over
! to the Secretary of State all petitions
! and remonstrances concerning submis-
! sion, and that they remain in the ar
chiyes of the State until after the next general
! election when they are to be destroyed, The
j vote by which the bill to allow special judges
! ten dollars per day failed to pass rcconsid-
cred. and the bill WAS passed with the emer-
! gency clause. The bill to create a new norm al
! district in Northwest Missouri was ordered
! engrossed and printed under suspension of
! the rules. Mr.. Balls School Book bill
| ordered to engrosSment as amended in the
| rnittee of the whole, with the exception of the
| amendment which proposed to distribute the
| books free to INDECENT children. The Militia
| bill was discussed at length and ordered en-
crossed; also the Funding bill .... In the House
| the following bills were passed: Providing that
! when a new trial is granted the motion
! of record shall state upon what grounds
| it was done: providing that curators
I and guardians may accept good personal Sc
| curity in estates of less than $500 instead of
! 800, the amount fixed at present; to make
| sheriffs members of boards OF county equaliza-
! ton in counties having township organizations:
to provide for the publication of the first six
! teen volumes of the reports of the st. Louis
| Court of Appeals